Questions tagged [educational]
Use this tag together with [story-identification] when looking for an educational work.
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Children's book about a robot and a computer system that goes rogue in a school
I have a vague recollection about a children's book I read a while ago, hopefully I'm not mixing things up with something else. Here's what I think I remember, though some of it might be wrong:
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1980s sci-fi British schools TV show with noseless aliens [duplicate]
When I was a kid, more than 30 years ago, I remember watching a TV show at school in the UK. Would have been mid-to-late '80s. I think it was probably part of an English language thing, where they'd ...
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TV Show - Mission: Reading or Reading Mission
I'm trying to find information about a TV show, or perhaps a segment from a TV show. I believe it was called Mission: Reading, or Reading Mission. It was a live-action kids educational TV show circa ...
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90s (or earlier) computer game where a troll turns you into a frog
This was a game I played in school aged 5 or 6 (in year one or two), which would be in 1991. I believe it was on a BBC Acorn, though it might have been some other computer; it seemed old fashioned to ...
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TV educational short film with kids trying to find a paleontologist via his messages. Turns out he's a dinosaur
I think I watched this in the mid 90s. A group of kids are supposed to meet a paleontologist, I think at a museum. At the meeting place, they find a message from him (and I think a broken crate and ...
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PBS Kids Point-and-click Adventure Game
At the school I went to in the early 2010s the first-second graders used to play some educational (the kind that's not really explicitly educational as in it teaches kids but the kind that teachers ...
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Short educational films with a superhero
I'm looking for a short educational film or films that I saw in the early 1980s. (I think that I saw two separate films featuring the same main character, but I am not absolutely certain.) They ...
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3-2-1 Contact (I think) episode involving an alien creature
I'll freely admit that I may be conflating memories here, but I'm 99% certain this was 3-2-1 Contact, although I also watched The Electric Company and other educational programs at the time (somewhere ...
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Cartoon about the benefits/dangers of nuclear energy
I watched this color cartoon back in school prior to 1995 in the USA, but I'm not sure how old it actually is.
The only scene I remember is a nuclear family (pardon the pun) seen from the rear. The ...
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Time travel story from textbook where a boy explores possible futures
I think this would have been in one of my textbooks around 1990 or so, 4th to 5th grade material in Kentucky.
A boy gains access to a time machine of the "visit your future self's body" sort. I ...
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Educational film where all the bright colours were kidnapped by the evil gray monster
I'm looking for a short educational movie that I saw in first or second grade. It was primarily an educational tool, to teach kids about colors, particularly the mixing of colors. However, I was ...
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